There’s a German phrase, “dunkelflaute”, which interprets as “darkish doldrums” – durations when there isn't any wind or solar to generate electrical energy (making you reliant on coal and Russian gasoline, if you happen to occur to have shut down all of your nuclear energy vegetation). London’s housing market appears...
John Vane: London fiction – Vine Street – OnLondon
Dominic Nolan's crime novel explores in wonderful element the Soho of the Nineteen Thirties I set myself the duty for 2024 of studying after which writing about 25 items of London fiction I haven’t learn earlier than. That is quantity 23 within the collection. * Dominic Nolan’s knotty crime novel,...
Interview: Daniel Francis MP on Bexleyheath & Crayford and what the seat’s voters want from Labour – OnLondon
I apologised to Daniel Francis, Labour MP for Bexleyheath & Crayford, after we met. My predictions for July’s basic election contained numerous duff calls, however so blithely had I assumed that his seat was nailed-on blue I didn’t give his prospects a second thought. After which, behold, he emerged victorious...
Watchdog reports reveal failings of London social housing landlords – OnLondon
Practically two years have handed since a senior member of a west London council strikingly noticed to a gathering in Finchley that there isn’t a very good housing repairs service anyplace. So annoyed had he turn out to be by the place in his personal borough that he’d received its...
Charles Wright: As Thames Water drowns in debt, what will happen next? – OnLondon
Thames Water is in a multitude, primarily of its personal making. And subsequent month appears to be like like crunch time for the way forward for the beleaguered utility firm, which offers water and sewerage companies to 16 million prospects throughout London and past. On 17 December, Thames will search...
John Vane’s London Stories: Comic turns, Camden – OnLondon
Jokes about relationship, ethnicity and meditation and one routine that went too far An autumn night time in Camden City, the place, way back, Kilburn and The Excessive Roads performed Dingwalls and a well-known pet store offered monumental snakes. The market was stuffed with bongs again then. Perhaps it nonetheless...
Lewis Baston: Labour’s ‘Super Thursday’ by-election holds can’t disguise a slide – OnLondon
Thursday 28 November noticed a Tremendous Thursday of London borough by-elections. There have been 5 vacancies in 4 wards in three boroughs. Two of the contests arose from councillors being elected MPs in July’s basic election, and one social gathering – Labour – was defending all of the seats. A...
Next stage approaches for Hackney Wick’s Yard theatre – OnLondon
Tucked away in a nook of east London proper subsequent to the Olympic Park, it has grown with the a part of the capital it serves To get to the Yard theatre, emerge from Hackney Wick station on what we now name the Mildmay line, scratch your head, look proper,...
Dave Hill: Don’t grow tired of caring about London’s housing emergency – OnLondon
In a chat for The London Society, Housing Ombudsman Richard Blakeway has warned of the hazard of tolerating the insupportable In principle, Britain’s Housing Ombudsman just isn't certainly one of London’s emergency companies: the workplace’s main function is to resolve disputes between social housing tenants and their landlords. In observe,...
Julie Hamill’s London: Writing where nobody knows your name – OnLondon
I can’t write at residence. I do know plenty of writers can and do, however I’m not one among them. The slightest floorboard creak, canine desires out, noise from the radio, door bang, cough, sneeze or beep-beep-beep of a reversing lorry and it’s over, laptop computer shut. The distant echo...